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Rhymes Here is a list of the words that rhyme with the word housekeeping.This is ordered by best match. Changing color means the start of the next best set of words.
3 syllable words
Near RhymesHere is a list of the words that nearly rhyme with the word housekeeping.
2 syllable words

asking

grasping

ousting

bleeping

creeping

keeping

leaping

piping

sleeping

sweeping

weeping

foundling

groundling

shoestring

sparkling

acting

boasting

bouncing

bounding

boxing

buckling

camping

carping

casting

coasting

coaxing

costing

crackling

frosting

grounding

harping

lumping

roasting

romping

rounding

scalping

sharking

sounding

stamping

suckling

tackling

tamping

warping

blasting

duckling

founding

jumping

marking

mounting

pouncing

hosting

hounding

lamping

lasting

parking

posting

pounding

pumping

thrusting

thumping

toasting

trusting

backing

banking

beading

beaming

beating

biding

biting

bleeding

blocking

breeding

briefing

broking

browning

browsing

bucking

caulking

ceiling

chipping

choking

chopping

cleaning

climbing

clipping

cloaking

clocking

clouding

clowning

clucking

cocking

coping

cracking

creaking

crossing

dealing

dicing

dining

dipping

diving

docking

doubting

dripping

driving

dropping

ducking

easing

eating

eking

feeding

feeling

fighting

filing

fining

firing

fleeting

franking

freaking

freezing

fucking

gassing

greening

greeting

grieving

grouping

grouting

hamstring

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

hiding

hopping

housing

icing

jeering

joking

keeling

knocking

lapping

leading

leaking

leaning

leasing

lighting

liking

lining

looping

lopping

mapping

meaning

meeting

mining

mocking

nanking

napping

nipping

offspring

outing

packing

passing

peaking

piling

pining

planking

pleading

pleasing

poking

popping

pouting

priming

prowling

racking

reading

riding

rising

rocking

rousing

sacking

scheming

scraping

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

sheeting

shining

shipping

shocking

shrouding

siding

sighting

signing

sizing

slapping

sliding

slighting

sloping

smacking

smoking

snapping

sneaking

sneezing

soaking

sopping

spanking

speaking

squeezing

stacking

stealing

stocking

stooping

stopping

strapping

streaming

striking

stripping

striving

stroking

sucking

sweeting

tacking

talking

teaming

teeming

tiding

tipping

topping

tossing

tripping

trucking

twining

viking

walking

wapping

weaving

weeding

whacking

wheeling

whipping

whiting

whooping

whopping

wiring

writing

dumpling

being

buying

crying

frying

peeing

sighing

washing

prying

flying

dyeing

dying

lying

nestling

seeing

drying

mowing

trying

couching

bleaching

flashing

blushing

crashing

crushing

dashing

breathing

breeching

brushing

handling

flushing

preaching

lashing

slouching

tithing

gushing

sheathing

teething

rambling

westling

tying

teaching

thrashing

vying

darling

inkling

blinding

binding

dancing

sprinkling

arming

bolting

banding

basting

boarding

bonding

cresting

breasting

bunting

carling

carving

chanting

charming

coupling

coursing

cuddling

daunting

forming

grafting

folding

drafting

forcing

farming

fielding

fixing

faulting

funding

evening

finding

glancing

golding

golfing

grappling

grinding

hoarding

holding

horning

kipling

lightning

heckling

helping

hunting

landing

listing

malting

minding

molting

mourning

parting

planting

rafting

morning

morphing

moulding

panting

pimping

resting

rifling

salting

sapling

scolding

scrimping

seedling

shafting

shuffling

shunting

slanting

snarling

sparling

sporting

standing

starling

starting

storming

straddling

stripling

tasting

taunting

testing

trifling

wasting

warming

twisting

vaulting

wanting

warning

weakling

vesting

warling

whistling

wrestling

wielding

wilding

winding

yielding

angling

arching

branching

bulging

wellspring

drinking

farthing

forging

launching

lunching

marching

scorching

shrinking

sinking

something

stinking

thinking

boating

boiling

bolling

boning

booming

booting

boozing

boring

bowling

bracing

braiding

braving

breaking

broiling

brooding

brawling

bruting

burping

budding

butting

calling

calming

caning

casing

chafing

chasing

chirping

clogging

closing

coating

coiling

colling

combing

coming

cooking

cooling

craving

crooning

culling

cunning

cutting

damning

dawning

doting

dragging

draining

dressing

drugging

drumming

dubbing

dueling

grading

moving

mugging

musing

muting

nagging

nodding

nosing

nursing

nutting

panning

offing

oozing

padding

pacing

paving

phasing

phrasing

picking

plating

plodding

plugging

plumbing

poling

polling

pooling

pressing

pruning

puffing

putting

quaking

racing

railing

raising

raking

raving

roaring

rolling

roofing

roving

rubbing

ruling

running

sagging

sailing

saving

scaling

scarring

schooling

shading

shaving

shooting

shoring

slating

slotting

snoring

stalling

stating

staving

sticking

stowing

straining

strutting

stuffing

sobbing

stunning

suiting

swooning

taking

soaring

tailing

tanning

aching

ailing

awning

bagging

baiting

baking

barring

batting

blazing

blessing

blooming

codding

facing

failing

falling

fading

feigning

flagging

flaming

floating

flogging

flooding

flooring

foaming

foiling

framing

fruiting

fuming

gadding

galling

gaming

glazing

gloaming

grating

grayling

grazing

grooming

gunning

having

hissing

hogging

holing

homing

hugging

humming

jailing

jarring

jerking

jogging

jutting

kicking

lading

lagging

laughing

licking

loading

loaning

logging

looking

looming

loring

losing

loving

madding

mailing

making

matting

missing

ticking

tooling

tracing

trading

trailing

training

tricking

tubing

tuning

veiling

voiding

voting

wading

waiting

waking

walling

waning

whaling

working

wrecking

yachting

kindling

tempting

aging

banging

bathing

beijing

catching

clanging

clothing

coaching

dishing

fishing

hanging

hatching

high-speed

judging

latching

loathing

lodging

longing

matching

nothing

paging

patching

plaything

pushing

raging

scratching

smoothing

soothing

staging

touching

wishing

chewing

weighing

cooing

crowing

flowing

fraying

saying

screwing

bluing

brewing

bowing

doing

drawing

glowing

going

laying

lowing

owing

paying

showing

suing

swaying

throwing

lawing

sewing

praying

blowing

blueing

growing

knowing

playing

belting

bending

building

fainting

fencing

glinting

blending

ending

gilding

lending

lifting

melting

mincing

painting

pelting

pending

piercing

pointing

printing

quilting

shelving

sibling

shifting

smelting

spending

squinting

tilting

whitling

wincing

earthling

fledgling

pinching

bedding

belling

brimming

clearing

derring

dwelling

drilling

churning

digging

during

airing

bearing

bidding

billing

cribbing

blaring

burning

chilling

curing

curling

daring

dilling

earning

earring

erring

fitting

fehling

filling

flaring

fleming

flitting

footing

gearing

getting

ginning

girding

giving

glaring

heading

herring

hilling

hitting

hurling

hurting

inning

jetting

kenning

killing

knitting

living

learning

legging

milling

lemming

mooring

petting

setting

skilling

ribbing

rigging

serving

shredding

sitting

skimming

skirting

sledding

slitting

smelling

sniffing

sparing

sterling

steering

pegging

netting

pairing

paring

pudding

quilling

schilling

shearing

shedding

shelling

shilling

shirting

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spurling

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swelling

swimming

thrilling

trilling

trimming

turning

veering

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wedding

whirling

willing

telling

winning

wording

yearling

yearning

yelling

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etching

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merging

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purging

ringing

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springing

stinging

stitching

stretching

switching

witching

wringing

stirring

makeshift

agasp

3 syllable words

machining

landscaping

housekeepers

housekeeper

aspiring

conceding

downsizing

housewarming

misleading

outfitting

succeeding

unfeeling

agreeing

annealing

appealing

crusading

locating

outlying

preceding

carrying

copying

backsliding

completing

unyielding

beseeching

besieging

frustrating

increasing

admiring

accusing

ascending

backbiting

blackmailing

crocheting

campaigning

confiding

counseling

darkening

decreasing

disguising

dissecting

dressmaking

endearing

exceeding

lactating

life-giving

marketing

misgiving

mistaking

oncoming

unfailing

uprising

aligning

amazing

asserting

blossoming

blustering

cackling

concurring

conveying

cycling

debating

divining

fastening

freewheeling

plastering

profiling

relieving

abiding

believing

bustling

factoring

muscling

opining

assuming

galloping

outgoing

repeating

everything

obliging

undying

outstanding

well-being

whitening

blanketing

accenting

adjoining

annoying

anything

assuring

buffeting

bullying

complaining

conquering

consulting

dairying

damaging

diapering

expiring

handwriting

inspiring

journeying

painstaking

peacekeepers

pitying

powdering

shoplifting

shortcoming

thanksgiving

toweling

unsparing

varying

equating

easterling

exciting

observing

offsetting

underling

upsetting

emptying

mumbling

outpouring

typesetting

tumbling

parceling

according

forthcoming

affecting

cowering

bumbling

bundling

comforting

commanding

concerning

connecting

conserving

consoling

consuming

flowering

scaffolding

scrambling

shortening

fondling

gambling

gardening

rumbling

hardening

pardoning

despairing

towering

alarming

bloodsucking

descending

bloodletting

declining

degrading

disarming

dissenting

incoming

peacekeeper

glowering

souring

invading

lamenting

persisting

reclining

recording

transporting

juggling

pondering

prevailing

profiting

provoking

quarreling

quickening

raveling

reckoning

reducing

sickening

softening

surrounding

thickening

thundering

tinkling

ticketing

visiting

scavenging

whispering

vomiting

maddening

modeling

listening

lumbering

mottling

opening

ordering

marshaling

wandering

pervading

laundering

twinkling

lessening

paneling

lawmaking

bungling

converging

adoring

alerting

alluring

baffling

battening

becoming

befitting

beginning

besetting

blistering

blundering

challenging

bottling

correcting

detailing

discerning

engaging

bubbling

channeling

colouring

doubling

emitting

faltering

forbidding

forgiving

glistening

governing

attracting

excepting

abducting

disgusting

enduring

expelling

respecting

installing

insulting

tormenting

unbending

conforming

contacting

engraving

hardworking

dissembling

unflinching

afflicting

absorbing

distressing

enclosing

misspelling

shipbuilding

cushioning

battering

carousing

conjuring

maturing

soldiering

arriving

bickering

chattering

coloring

covering

dialing

sojourning

tinkering

constricting

doddering

echoing

flattering

ironing

motoring

neutering

offering

papering

pickering

scattering

seagoing

smattering

soldering

stuttering

suffering

surveying

tapering

watering

erupting

badgering

issuing

decisive

networking

mothering

carpeting

recessive

complying

forwarding

pronouncing

abounding

dampening

erecting

inserting

sleepwalking

trumpeting

typewriting

unwitting

gathering

unwilling

expanding

exploring

imprinting

conflicting

contracting

distracting

groundbreaking

bushwhacking

carjacking

layering

lowering

matchmaking

arresting

ballooning

appalling

beguiling

centering

crippling

delighting

designing

happening

entering

diverting

dividing

ensuing

highflying

lightening

opposing

deserving

pilfering

polluting

promising

presiding

reasoning

retiring

surpassing

traversing

rendering

reviving

seasoning

seducing

surviving

sweetening

tempering

compounding

confounding

exhausting

perplexing

broadcasting

dumbfounding

forecasting

harvesting

exacting

reflecting

astounding

arranging

successive

taxicab

vanishing

diverging

fingering

lingering

ravishing

polishing

bettering

canoeing

caressing

favoring

flavoring

following

glimmering

laboring

lettering

murmuring

neighboring

peppering

shadowing

shimmering

tailoring

amusing

approving

bullfighting

commuting

composing

departing

inviting

languishing

dissolving

enticing

good-looking

foreboding

infighting

kidnapping

nerve-racking

relapsing

resisting

patrolling

regarding

revolting

surprising

eavesdropping

heartbreaking

interesting

revolving

beholding

nourishing

taxicabs

measuring

weathering

withering

approaching

warehousing

wagering

feathering

landholding

butchering

brainwashing

childbearing

confusing

convincing

cradling

deadening

deafening

drizzling

engrossing

enlisting

existing

exulting

impending

imploring

importing

investing

leavening

leveling

meddling

middling

ongoing

peddling

piddling

reversing

riveting

scribbling

settling

sizzling

stiffening

tabling

threatening

undoing

rejoicing

bicuspid

belonging

excessive

wrongdoing

finishing

enchanting

dwindling

imposing

defusing

railroading

trembling

unthinking

billowing

mellowing

narrowing

winnowing

yellowing

bicuspids

refreshing

possessive

hairdressing

improving

strengthening

churchgoing

successful

4 syllable words

fascinating

obviating

occupying

oscillating

bicycling

suffocating

vacillating

awakening

moderating

operating

pioneering

barbecuing

captivating

devastating

maximizing

mountaineering

unbelieving

astonishing

overrating

dominating

unavailing

domineering

overcoming

overlapping

annotating

persevering

laminating

agonizing

inquiring

agitating

calculating

discouraging

oceangoing

executing

encouraging

complicating

unrelenting

gratifying

separating

notifying

liberating

overlying

aggravating

emphasizing

advertising

underpinning

activating

disappointing

encircling

palpitating

penetrating

unbecoming

underwriting

unremitting

disengaging

distributing

disparaging

fluctuating

legislating

merchandising

undulating

bewildering

mitigating

babysitting

irritating

detonating

hesitating

delegating

disabling

disappearing

nonrecurring

overflowing

overbearing

overruling

unassuming

underlying

implicating

integrating

disconcerting

condescending

corresponding

encompassing

overarching

overhauling

edifying

petitioning

examining

overwhelming

notwithstanding

entertaining

interviewing

denigrating

circulating

disapproving

conditioning

partitioning

engineering

understanding

inhibiting

diagnosing

never-ending

centralizing

intersecting

disheartening

registering

shakespearean

coexisting

everlasting

undertaking

dispiriting

psychopathy

realizing

reentering

fingerprinting

speechifying

appetizing

overpowering

fireproofing

developing

energizing

high-spirited

successively

parachuting

excusable

enlightening

enveloping

interlocking

waterproofing

embarrassing

admonishing

enterprising

patronizing

distinguishing

inheriting

exasperate

accessible

Words that rhyme with the word housekeeping

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  • Cat and Hat
  • Head and Red
  • Egg and Beg
  • Soap and Hope
  • True and Blue

Imperfect Rhymes

Near rhymes, otherwise known as imperfect rhymes, are words that sound the same but are not perfect rhymes. Having trouble deciding if a word is a perfect or imperfect rhyme? Here are some examples:

  • Cat and Bad
  • Head and Mud
  • Egg and Peck
  • Soap and Chap
  • True and Cure

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Rhymes are most useful in creating lyrics, but they can also be used as a tool to memorize. It is a powerful mnemonic device. This is why song lyrics can be so easy to remember! It's also why rhymes are a great study tool for memorizing! Use this tool to help write poetry, win rhyme games, write a rap song, create lyrics, and expand your vocabulary! Rhyming is very important in music because it creates a rhythm that further creates meaning, emotion, and feeling. It also creates an echo in the lyrics. With children, rhyming is a very important tool. Rhyming teaches children how language works, helps them understand the rhythm of language, and learn how to make predictions. In other words, rhymes teach children phrases to anticipate and rhymes enhance their memory. Within all contexts, rhyming is helpful in expanding your imagination no matter if you’re a child or an adult.

When creating lyrics, there are five types of rhymes to choose from.

  • End rhymes: rhyming of the final word of a line
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  • Eye rhymes: look like they rhyme but sound different

Different Types of Rhymes
  • Mascline rhymes: have a stressed syllable
  • Feminine rhymes: have a stressless syllable.

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  • Month
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  • Bulb
  • Wolf
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